Tradition Quotes - Page 8

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.

The traditional DJ world isn't a world that I come from.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

Most seasonings are based on family tradition.

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

Tradition is a prop for social security.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.